It’s a question that keeps cropping up on our forum, so we thought we’d answer it in the medium of print: what bike for the Lake District? It’s a testing question as the Lakes combines a little bit of everything; big, big climbs, long distance pedalling and some truly testing descents. The attributes required read like an engineer’s Holy Grail: light weight, pedalling performance and high speed, technical descending capability.

We picked a trio of bikes and took them to the Cumbrian outdoor playgrounds to put them through their paces. You can read the full test in Issue 77 but exclusively for our subscribers, here are the video extra bits from that review….